Dude, BIOS won't recognize my HD!!

Hey guys check this out:
I got the K7N2G-ILSR about 2 months ago.
Running 512 megs of Samsung pc2700 ram,
430 Antec TruePower,
XP2100 oc'd to 2700,
Geforce4 Ti 4200.
Maxtor 80 Gig primary
WD 80 Gig slave
XP Pro SP1
My problem is with my hard drives. This is what happened about three times now: Every now and then , during POST test my BIOS will not recognize one of my hard drives.
In the past I use to unhook power cord, reset FSB to 100Mhz and clear BIOS. That use to solve the problem, and I had no data loss.
My rig did the same crap yesterday, but this time reset of BIOS ain't helping. I even switched the Maxtor drive which my board will not recognize to my backup box ( kt133, XP1700, 256 meg pc133). My backup box recognizes it during POST, but can not see it in Windows.
I used Windows Disk Manager to initalize and format the drive and I put it back to my original system ,but it still won't detect it. I'm freaking out, ttried just about everything short of buying new drive to fix this crap. This happened earlier with my WD 40 gig drive, which I ended up pulling out and donating to my backup rig. Works just fine there.
What figures?? Any clues....pleez help

SinDiesel666,
It does sound like a drive is failing.
Just to test, put one drive as primary master and the other drive as secondary master. Do not put any slaves on and see what happens.
Good Luck,
Richard

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